MONDAY WRAPVeronica De La Cruz, who had the Coronavirus and is recovering at home, may well be at KPIX beyond next year. I reported it was more than likely that she would be on her way and that PIX/CBS wouldn't extend her contract. I can't imagine that CBS would send someone packing given they contracted the virus but I could be wrong.
*I don't care much for De La Cruz' broadcast style on PIX; it's pretty obvious. But I also wish she didn't get sick. Anyone who thinks I'm relishing her medical situation is a total moron. Veronica is a public, high-profile TV News anchor in the Bay Area. Therefore her status is news. Even when it's none of our damn business.
*All of a sudden, everyone is a constitutional lawyer.
*I haven't written a lot about the local coverage of the virus namely because I haven't watched as much local news, more cable. Which should tell you what I think of the local news display. If having reporters out front and center with masks (and some, without) is supposed to be ground-breaking material, then count me among the not-interested. Everything is pretty much standard-fare, there isn't anything I've seen that rocks the boat. Creative energy? Something new and original? Nothing at all. What else is new?
*The April radio ratings are out, and yes, although these ratings are not the ratings the ad people buy on, it should be noted that, among others, KGO and KNBR had very disturbing numbers. Maybe time to have those much-loved meetings in the break room.
*People, when there's literally NO ADVERTISING MONEY, than yes, radio is in trouble, here and nationally.
*Mark Thompson isn't delivering. Maybe his voice but not him. Doing a "SF Bay Area" show out of LA is issue numero uno. Talk about a swamp.
*I'm not joking here, Ronn Owens is privately still pitching cruises. I'll leave it at that, pal.
*Cruises? Now? OMG.
They should not hired her from DAY 1 with this crazy background being a single mom trying to get woman rights attention and coming to the Bay Area with her personal issues. We all have issues, her issues is "slacking off" when S.F. is the place to do so.
ReplyDeleteHow much longer will Susan Leigh Taylor cover the 10-2 M-F shift on KCBS?
ReplyDeleteIf this is true..."Veronica is a public, high-profile TV News anchor in the Bay Area" how come virtually anyone and everyone I ever mention her to has never heard of her? I really think you read wayyyyyyy too much into her. She moves the needle about as much as Henry Tenenbaum at this point.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they have never heard of her, because she usually "has the night off."
Delete12:37 spot on. Or not as many people care nowadays about local television news as they did in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I would bet the vast majority tuning in regularly are most likely seniors. Middle aged people are too busy (pre and post pandemic) and the younger generation gets their news from their smartphones.
DeleteNow that KNBR has added Paulie Mac's podcast to their vaunted weekend lineup of horseracing, annuity sales and 14 hours of baseball reruns, they will be back on top in no time!
ReplyDeleteHow much do you want to bet that radio stations start running commercials for things like the $19.99 My Pillow? The $19.99 hair remover gadget for women? Maybe K-Tel will come back and pump music collections? Or is that reserved for Time-Life?
ReplyDeleteAs for daily radio and TV programming, it's the same old thing. Coronavirus this, coronavirus that. People defying orders here, people defying orders there. To be honest, it's old news.
Haven't we had enough?
We have. And we don't really need local news on FOX 2, KNTV 3, KRON 4, KPIX 5 or KGO 7 with repeats on KICU 6 and foreign language news on 8 or 9 anymore. Ridiculously saturated market.
DeleteYes, and this is something I thought Rich would blog on. ALL the local news (TV at least) is exactly the same every night. You could rerun a newscast from three weeks ago and I doubt anyone would notice. The same stories—nurses being brave and being applauded (I'm grateful, truly, but how many times can we do this story?), restaurants struggling, heartbreaking cases of people getting the virus, from elderly folks who just celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary to little kids, blather from Trump about how we're doing better and testing more people than any other country in the world, local docs who say they don't have enough testing equipment, and oh gosh, the air is so clean with nobody out. Lather, rinse, repeat.
DeleteRonn and Lovey want to sell you a cruise ticket for a Three Hour Tour, a Three Hour Tour....
ReplyDeleteRadioactive Ronn rides on the Petri-Dish Water Roller! Yeesh! Pick a virus, any virus, one will pick it up on any cruise ship, no matter how strict the liner companies' cleaning and testing are. Even they should know that one can't stop Mother Nature from spewing its biological germs. Of course, that won't stop Lowenstein.
ReplyDeleteKeep meaning to ask my uncle to borrow his dinghy our own cruise for the 415 Blog!
ReplyDeleteI can see this now --- "Now Booking: A little cruise on the Bay on Negin's uncle's extravagant dinghy! Bring your own coffee/drinks, hand sanitizer and masks! Proceeds go to the 415 Blog!" :)
Sounds like this gal is nothing but "tsuris"....
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A unique San Francisco sophistication that greatly surpassed the shallowness of the Hollywood crowd, which seems to dominate everything in Southern California, is long gone from the Bay Area broadcasts. Most days it's a folksy, hometown newscast, mistakes and all. KTVU broadcast a video teleconference with John Sasaki and Heather Holmes last night where, at one point, Sasaki's video had him lying sideways to the camera. Looked like someone had hacked their Zoom. Funny, as is the Sabattier effect on both Heather and Alex at various times during the broadcast. Creepy and funny. I can only imagine it will get worse.
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